Description

Second and enlarged edition of the first atlas of the Dutch province of Friesland, including 30 detail maps of the entire provinces of Friesland, an overview map of Friesland and 8 historical maps of the Netherlands.

The first edition was produced by Bernard Schotanus in 1698 after he received an order from the Gedeputeerde Staten for a new mapping out of the Grietenijen. This first edition was published in 125 copies only. The rapid topographical changes in Frisia and the small number of printed copies made a new edition necessary just 20 years later. After the death of Schotanus in 1704, François Halma edited and published this 1718 edition in Leeuwarden. He revised the copperplates with information up to date and added the seven historical maps of the Netherlands from Menso Alting, plus a historical overview map of Frisia by Schotanus. The Halma atlas was later re-issued by R & J Ottens. (R. W. Shirley)

The execution of these maps is exceptionally beautiful... one of the best and most beautiful documents of our old cartography.

The heraldic plates showing the arms of the province of Friesland, the arms of the fourteen Frisian districts and the arms of William Karel Hendrik Friso, Prince of Orange-Nassau. The splendid allegorical frontispiece, which is also new in this edition, was engraved by Jacob Folkema after a drawing by the artist Gerbrandus van der Haven and especially the poet Johannes Hilarides, who provides a detailed explanation in verse on the back of the title page.

Condition

All plates brilliantly coloured by a contemporary hand. Complete with all published maps and plates. 19th century blue paper sheet with printed table of contents pasted on endpaper. 19th century blue paper labels with printed map number and title pasted in upper corner on back of each map. Straightened vertical creases around centrefold on half of the maps. Several maps with backed centrefold.

Cartographer

Bernhard Schotanus van Sterringa, son of the Professor Christian Schotanus, was born 1639 in Franeker. Landscape painter, medical student and map maker. Schotanus has died 1704 in Leeuwarden.

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